Hi, I’m Dan. I help people build a better relationship with work.
I’m an organizational psychologist, educator, and consultant focused on workplace well-being, burnout prevention, and sustainable careers.
Doing Better Work is where years of research, teaching, coaching, consulting, and a few hard-earned career lessons come together.
Work should not require you to disappear into it.
I started Doing Better Work for people who are capable, conscientious, and tired. People who are trying to do good work inside systems that are often unclear, overloaded, under-resourced, or quietly unsustainable.
My work sits at the intersection of organizational psychology, workplace wellbeing, burnout prevention, and career decision-making. Translation: I help people understand what work is doing to them, what is actually within their control, and what a more sustainable next move could look like.
Not every work problem is a mindset problem. Sometimes the spreadsheet is, in fact, on fire.
This work did not start as a brand. It started as a question.
I’ve been studying burnout and sustainable work for years, starting with my dissertation and continuing through teaching, consulting, and building tools to help people navigate work with more clarity and less self-blame.
Along the way, I kept seeing the same pattern: people who were thoughtful, motivated, and good at their jobs were blaming themselves for problems that were partly personal, partly organizational, and often badly named.
Doing Better Work is my attempt to bring that work together: the research, the tools, the teaching, the consulting, the app-building, and the lived reality that careers are not abstract. They happen inside actual lives, with rent, relationships, health, ambition, managers, Slack messages, and occasionally the Sunday Scaries wearing a tiny hat.
Before DBW: Waves
Before DBW, I developed Waves, an app focused on helping people recognize and respond to burnout risk. That work sharpened the same belief behind Doing Better Work: people need practical ways to understand their strain before burnout starts making the decisions for them.
Evidence-informed, human-centered, and practical.
Organizational psychology
PhD in organizational psychology, focused on well-being, burnout, and the systems that shape work.
Teaching
I teach workplace behavior, motivation, and organizational life in practical, usable ways.
Consulting
I support teams with workplace well-being, effectiveness, and more sustainable ways of working.
Tools and applied work
I build practical tools, including Waves, to help people recognize burnout risk and choose clearer next steps.
My approach is simple: name the strain, find the agency, choose the next move.
01 — Name the strain
Before you can change anything, you need language for what is happening. Burnout, overload, role confusion, unclear expectations, low control, and career uncertainty can all feel like “I’m failing” when they are not named clearly.
02 — Find the agency
The goal is not to pretend everything is within your control. It is to separate what you can influence from what you should stop blaming yourself for carrying.
03 — Choose the next move
Sometimes the move is rest. Sometimes it is a boundary, a conversation, a redesign, a clearer ask, a recovery plan, or a decision to leave. The point is to choose deliberately instead of letting depletion choose for you.
What you can expect
For people who want ambitious work without self-abandonment.
For early- and mid-career professionals navigating burnout risk, unclear expectations, bad-fit roles, difficult workplace dynamics, or the sense that something needs to change.
You are good at work, but tired of work being bad for you.
You want practical tools without being blamed for the system around you.
You need clearer language for what is happening.
You want a thoughtful decision, not a panic move.
You want support that respects your capacity.
Start by naming what work is doing to you.
If you are not sure where to begin, start small. The Sustainable Work Snapshot gives you language for the strain you may be carrying and one practical next step to try.